User guide

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Chapter 1: Product introduction
1.1 Welcome!
Thank you for buying the ASUS
®
P4R800-VM motherboard!
The ASUS
P4R800-VM motherboard delivers a host of new features and latest
technologies making it another standout in the long line of ASUS quality
motherboards!
Before you start installing the motherboard, and hardware devices on it, check the
items in your package with the list below.
1.2 Package contents
Check your P4R800-VM package for the following items.
ASUS P4R800-VM motherboard
Micro-ATX form factor: 9.6 in x 9.6 in (24.5 cm x 24.5 cm)
ASUS P4R800-VM series support CD
Serial (COM) port module and cable
80-conductor UltraATA IDE cable
Ribbon cable for a 3.5-inch floppy drive
I/O shield
Bag of extra jumper caps
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If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your retailer.
1.3 Special features
Intel
®
800MHz FSB CPU support
The P4R800-VM comes with a 478-pin surface mount, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF)
socket for the Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 Northwood/Willamette processor in the 478-pin
package with 512/256KB L2 cache on 0.13 micron process. This motherboard
supports 800/533/400 MHz system front side bus that allows 6.4GB/s, 4.3GB/s and
3.2GB/s data transfer rates, respectively. The P4R800-VM also supports the Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology and the next-generation Intel
®
Prescott CPU.
See page 1-8.
ATi RADEON 9100 IGP/IXP200 chipset
The embedded RADEON 9100 Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) northbridge
and the IXP200 southbridge chipset control all interfaces to ensure an efficient and
reliable computing performance. See page 2-15 and 2-16.